{"id":18206,"date":"2026-01-26T13:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-shutdown-odds-spike-after-minnesota-killing\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:01:45","slug":"capitol-agenda-shutdown-odds-spike-after-minnesota-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-shutdown-odds-spike-after-minnesota-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Shutdown odds spike after Minnesota killing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The killing of Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents is hitting hard on Capitol Hill, ratcheting up the odds of a partial government shutdown and spurring Republican lawmakers to make another break with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest on how the fallout from the Minnesota shooting is playing out in Congress:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Shutdown looks likely: <\/b>The Senate is set to take its first vote on the last tranche of government funding bills Thursday, and things aren\u2019t looking good.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is insisting that Republicans work across the aisle to rewrite DHS funding legislation but also signaling that Democrats would be willing to help advance the other five pending appropriations bills in the meantime. Several Democrats who helped end the previous shutdown say they plan to vote against the funding bills unless there are changes to the ICE operation in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

At this stage, Senate GOP leadership expects to move forward as planned on the six-bill package including DHS. Republicans and the White House have reached out to Senate Democrats about how to proceed, but one Senate Democratic leadership aide granted anonymity said they haven\u2019t raised \u201crealistic solutions.\u201d A number of rank-and-file Senate Republicans are speaking out against any attempt to \u201cdefund\u201d DHS \u2014 and leadership would need buy-in from all 100 senators to quickly strip out the DHS bill. President Donald Trump is now pushing Republicans<\/u><\/a> to pass a bill to \u201cEND Sanctuary Cities.\u201d<\/p>\n

A couple key reminders: The pending funding bills include money for the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services and State, and account for more than 75 percent of federal discretionary spending.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t forget the House is out this week and wouldn\u2019t be around to pass any revamped funding bills before Friday. The Senate won\u2019t hold its first vote of the week until Tuesday afternoon because of the snow storm.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Trump faces nervous GOP: <\/b>A growing number of House and Senate Republicans are voicing public concerns<\/u><\/a> about the incident and calling for an investigation, as top administration officials defend the agents involved.<\/p>\n

Even close Trump allies are beginning to speak out. Sen. David McCormick (R-Pa.) said on X Sunday night<\/u><\/a> that he supports the Border Patrol and ICE but that he agrees with the NRA<\/u><\/a> about the need for a \u201cfull investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

House Homeland Security Chair Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) is calling for DHS officials to testify. House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) suggested to Fox News that Trump would want to \u201cmaybe go to another city\u201d as Minnesota officials push back.<\/p>\n

Some Republicans have been privately warning administration officials and GOP leaders for months that Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown is not going over well in some pockets of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of us wonder if the administration has any clue as to how much this will hurt us legislatively and electorally this year,\u201d said one House Republican.<\/p>\n

Jordain Carney and Meredith Lee Hill contributed to this report. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The killing of Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents is hitting hard on Capitol Hill, ratcheting up the odds of a partial government shutdown and spurring Republican lawmakers to make another break with the Trump administration. Here\u2019s the latest on how the fallout from the Minnesota shooting is playing out in Congress: \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}